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Republican Representative Andy Hopper has gone viral for admitting he didn't know what intersex meant during a debate on gender and equality issues.
Several LGBTQ+ and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were killed on Friday (April 11) during a $337 billion budget debate.
Hopper aimed to eliminate funding for the University of Texas over its LGBTQ+ and DEI programs but was challenged by Democratic Representative Lauren Ashley Simmons after he said that you're born with a specific set of chromosomes.
When Simmons asked what about intersex people Hopper said: "I don't even know what that means, ma'am."
According to the Intersex Society of North America, Intersex is "a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male".
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